LUGU BRIOUS. Fr. Lugubre; It. and Sp. Lugubre; Lat. Lugubris, from lug-ere, to mourn. As the Fr. "Doleful, mourning, mournful, sorrowful, wailing, funeral," (Cotgrave.) Act no passionate, lugubrious, tragical part, whatever secular provocation cross us on the stage. Hammond. Works, vol. iv. p. 546. Most of them represent devout lugubrious events; the most gloomy of which, such as flagellation and crucifixion, have been chosen by the king to adorn his bed chamber. LUKE-WARM. LUKE-WA'RMNESS. LEW. Swinburne. Spain, Let. 41. A. S. Wlac, tepidus, (from wlac-ian, to warm.) Sometimes by pleonasm is written wlec-warm, whence our luke-warm, (Lye.) And Tooke says, the A. S. Wlac (our luke) is the past part. of wlac-ian, to warm or make warm and lew, in A. S, Hliw, hleow, is the past part. of hliw-an, hleow-an, (to low, qv.) to warm, to cherish: to say-luke, or lew-warm, is merely saying, warm-warm; he asserts, however, that it is a modern pleonasm, and Lye produces no instance of ancient usage. As applied (met.)-with little warmth; cool; without ardour or zeal. But for thou art lewe, and neither coold neither hoot, I schal bigynne to cast thee out of my mouthe. Wiclif. Apocalips, c. 3. God said in thapocalips vnto the churche of Loadice. Thou arte neyther hote nor cold but luke-warme. were colde yt thou mighteste waxe warme. I would thou Sir T. More. Workes, p. 83. There lay upon the gras LUM For the changes that are rung upon lull, lully, lully by, see The Mother's Lullaby, in Ritson's Ancient Songs. He lulleth hire, he kisseth hire ful oft. Chaucer. The Merchantes Tale, v. 9697. And in hire barme this litel child she leid, Milton. L'Allegro. Shakespeare. Titus Andronicus, Act ii. sc. 3. Stay but a little, till the tempest cease, And the loud winds are lull'd into a peace. Dryden. Ovid, Ep. 7. Her cradle was rocked to the iambic measure, and she was lulled to sleep by singing to her an ode of Horace. Observer, No. 109. Leon. My lord, your stay was long, and yonder lull Of falling waters tempted me to rest, Dispirited with noon's excessive heat. LUMBER, v. LUMBER, n. LU'MBRING, N. Young. The Revenge, Act v. sc. 2. Probably formed from the verb to lump. Skinner says, supellex vilior. A. S. Geloma. Supellex simpliciter. It is applied toArticles of furniture not in use or orderly arrangement, thrown together in a lump, cumbersome and bulky. To lumber, to move lumpishly, clumsily, or heavily along; to put together or aside as lumber, in lumps, heaps, or masses. They lumber forth the law.-Skelton. Boke of Colin Clout. Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. ii. Fr. Luminaire; It. Luminari, Sp. Luminarias. (See ILLUMINE.) Tooke derives the Lat. Lumen from the A. S. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 9. Leoman, lioman, to irradiate, to glitter, to shine. Luminary, A dreary corse, whose life away did pas, For in the evangelical justice, between the natural, or legal good or evil there is a medium or a third, which of itself and by the accounts of the law was not evil, but in the accounts of the evangelical righteousness is a very great one; that is, lukewarmness, or a cold, tame, indifferent, unactive religion.-Bp. Taylor. Of Repentance, c. 5. s. 4. But thou, Patroclus, act a friendly part, Lead to my ships, and draw this deadly dart; With lukewarm water wash the gore away, With healing balms the raging smart allay. Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. xi. Having scarce any [names] for the many degrees of coldness, that may be conceived to be intermediate, betwixt lukewarmness and the freezing degree of cold. Boyle. Works, vol. ii. That which enlightens or gives light to, which makes clear or bright; a light:-(met.) that which gives light to the understanding; one who shows or manifests brilliant powers of mind. Thus the outwarde parte of the place lumyned the eyes of O radiant luminary of light interminable Skelton. A Prayer to the Father of Heauen. P. 490. And in these posting luminaries It but a necessary care is, And very consonant to reason Devotion, when lukewarm, is undevout; } LULL, v. Dut. Lollen, lullen, mussare, nuLULL, n. meros non verba canere, sonum LU'LLABY. imitari, (Kilian.) Sw. Lulla, canere ; to sing in a manner to invite children to sleep, (Ihre.) To lull may be the same word as loll; children are placed lolling upon the arms or lap of those who lull them to sleep; and who accompany their song lull baby lullaby, with a gentle, soothing motion. The Lat. Lallare, from the Gr. Aaλew, had the same usage, and is considered by Vossius to be formed from the sound. To soothe, to compose (to sleep,) to soothe, to assuage, to calm. To go well clad in such a season.-Cotton. Winter. G. Fletcher. Christ's Triumph after Death. The contact of the air, though it were not free, did in a few days destroy the luminousness of a good phosphorus. Boyle. Works, vol. iv. p. 370. Thus perished Pythagoras, the Samian philosopher, founder of the Italian school, and the great luminary of the heathen world.-Observer, No. 9. Notwithstanding the numerous objections which have been made to the validity of his [Boscovich] reasonings, none of his critics has refused him the praise of the most luminous perspicuity.-Stewart. Philos. Ess. c. 1. Ess. 2. LUMP, v. together, Somner.) Dut. Lompe; perhaps from the A. S. Lim-an, ge-liman, connectere, conglutinare; to bind or fasten together, (sc.) in one mass; (or to glue or join See LIME. To put together in one mass; to take in one collected body; to amass. Lumpish, massive, bulky, heavy, dull. Piers Plouhman, p. 155. eyen The lumpe of fleshe twene the new borne foales To reue, that winneth from the damme her loue. Surrey. Virgile. Æneis, b. iv. The beares blinde whelpes, which lacke doth nayles and heare, And lie like lumpes, in filthie farrowed wise, Do (for a time) most ougly beastes appeare, Till dammes deare tongue, do clear the glosed eyes. M. C. commending the Correction of Gascoign's Posies. The oxe with lumpish pace and leisure that doth drawe, Hath respite after toil is past to fill his empty maw. Turbervile. That all Things haue Release, &c. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 1. P. Fletcher. The Purple Island, c. 4. Methinks, I dwell in a kind of disconsolate darkness, and a sad lumpishnesse of unbeliefe, wanting that lightsome assurance which others profess to find in themselves. Bp. Hall. The Comforter. Or if his lumpish fancy does refuse Rochester. An Allusion to Horace, b. i. Sat. 10. One of the best spades to dig hard lumpy clays, but too small for light garden mould.-Mortimer. Husbandry. In life so fatally distinguish'd, why Young. Complaint, Night 7. LUNACY. LU'NATICK, adj. LU'NATICK, n. LUNE. Churchill. Gotham, b. iii. Fr. Lunatique; It. Lunatico; Sp. Lunatico; Lat. Lunaticus, from luna, as the Gr. Zeλnνιακοι, from σεληνη; because the disorder under which they labour increases or decreases-pro ratione lunæ, (Vossius.) It is also applied generally to Madness-insanity of mind. Lunes occurs four times in Shakespeare; but has not been met with elsewhere. The wiche aren lunatik lollers, and leperes aboute. Piers Plouhman, p. 152. And hem that hadden fendis, and lynatyk men. Wiclif. Matthew, c. 4. & them that were possessed wyth dyuels & those which were lunatyke.-Bible, 1551. Ib. Pau. I dare be sworne : These dangerous, vnsafe lunes i' th' King,-beshrew them: He must be told on't, and he shall. Shakespeare. Winter's Tale, Act ii. sc. 2. The termes of our estate, may not endure Hazard so dangerous as doth hourly grow Out of his lunacies. Mal. Who cals there? Id. Hamlet, Act iii. sc. 3. Clo. Sir Topas the curate, who comes to visit Maluolio the lunaticke.-Id. Twelfth Night, Act iv. sc. 2 Since then their good they will not understand 'Tis time to take the monarch's power in hand; Authority and force to join with skill, And save the lunatics against their will. Dryden. Absalom & Achitophel. I must convince you, not only that the unhappy prisoner was a lunatic, within my own definition of lunacy, but that the act in question was the immediate, unqualified offspring of the disease.-Erskine. Speech for James Hadfield. LUR of a moon-like form, or form similar to that of the moon. Thay that have hereon resolved that those years were but Isnery years (to wit) of a month or thereabouts, or Egyptian years, are easily co::futed. Ralegh. History of the World, b. i. c. 5. s. 5. The Greeks observed the lunary year, that is, twelve relutions of the moon, 354 dayes; but the Egyptians, and many others, adhered unto the solary account, that is, 365 dayes, that is, eleven dayes longer. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b, iv. c. 12. A sort of cross, which our heralds do not dream of; which across lanated after this manner. Brown. Travels, (1685.) p. 54. Our predecessors could never have believed that there were such lumets about some of the planets, as our late perspectives have descryed.-Bp. Hall. Peace-Maker, s.10. Now with hot blood the frozen breast she warms, O soule, lurking in this wofull neste, Chaucer. Troil. & Cres. b. iv. I myself sometimes, leauing the feare of heauen on the Shakespeare. Merry Wives of Windsor, Act ii. sc. 2. Man-entred thus, he waxed like a sea, Id. Coriolanus, Act ii. sc. 2. And this facility we shall have above our next neighbour- Where on the field the breathless corse was laid, There full the lunar beam resplendent play'd; And show'd each limb deform'd with many a wound. Hoole. Jerusalem Delivered, b. viii. Some faithful janizaries strew'd the field, Fall'n in just ranks or wedges, lunes or squares, Firm as they stood. Watts. Lyric Poems, b. ii. A complete lunation consists of about twenty-nine days and an half, and the changes of the moon are very sible, there could be no great difficulty in accommodating them to each other, or in fixing what number of days should be allowed to a month.-Priestley. On History, pt. iii. Lect.14. LUNCH. Minshew derives from Sp. LUNCHEON."Lonja, a long piece, a slice, a diver, a good cut," (Delpino.) It is not prohable that we are indebted to the Spanish for the word. The origin is common to the two lan guages. As applied to the refreshment between breakfast and dinner, luncheon seems to be corruptly used for nuncheon, i.e. noonshun, the refreshment taken at noon, when labourers desist from work, to shun the heat. When hungry thou stood'st staring, like an oaf, I slic'd the luncheon from the barley-loaf. LUNGS. Some straight way said (their lungs with envy fret) Gascoigne. A Remembrance by G. Whetstone. LURCH, v. LURCH, LO'RCHER. LORK, U. LURKER cis insidiari; to lie in wait for, to lie in wait or Watch with eyes and ears, with eyes askance : and in Scotch, to loure is to lurk, i. e. to lower or rouch down. of something like a Duke of Venice, put lately into many Whilest Nero thus lurked, the senate assembled in coun- If this lawlesse lurker had ever had any taste of the civill Somervile. A dainty new Ballad. He held it now no longer safe It is in corners of our frame which seem, on a superficial LURE, v. Fr. Leurrer; It. Logorare; Dut. to ensnare. See ALLURE. Skinner To induce or attract, by some temptation; to He thogte come by hem, & brynge hem somme lure. Ich am nat lured wt love. Lidgale. The Story of Thebes, pt. iii. But yet hir lyketh not alight Another day he wol peraventure To furch or lurk is, (thus,)-to lie or cause to ein wait or watch; to lie in concealment: to , is also to leave in the lurch, i. e. perhaps, (the watch; when further watch was useless, in the game had fied; in trouble, danger, or Realty, to help ourselves as we may; and thus, mber, to escape, when others do or cannot; to or win what or when others do not or can; to carry off the prize. Lye suspects Luscious to be corrupted from Delicious. Skinner, that it is more probably from the Fr. Lousche, vin lousche, thick or unsettled wine; such wines being of exceeding sweetness. Lush, in Shakspeare, Henley asserts "rank;" and Malone, "juicy, succulent;" Golding, (quoted by the latter,) in his Ovid, translates, turget et insolida est, (sc. herba,)—lush and foggy is the blade. to mean, Lush may be from the A. S. Lew, (q. d. lewish,) the past part. of Hleow-an, fovere, to nourish; and thus mean, nourished; and, consequentially, full of juice or succulence. Luscious is used as equivalent to- So fashioned a porch with rare device, Archt over head with an embracing vine, Where Titan still unyokes his fiery-hoofed team Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 847. Shakespeare. Tempest, Act ii. sc. 1. Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. iii. O'er well-rang'd hives the bees shall swarm, Warton. The Progress of Discontent, Not all the culinary arts can tame To indulge in idleness, in laziness; in indoindolent, or inactive; in sensual indulgences. lence, in inactivity; to be or remain idle or lazy, Sibriht that schrew as a lordon gan lusk.-R. Brunne, p.9. He had visited here his holy congregacions, in diuers corners and luskes lanes.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 344. Tyndall teacheth vs, that his true members of his elect church doe neuer sinne deadly, because yt after the luskes haue plyed out al their lustes, then they repent agayne and remember themself & their father's former kindnes and be sory. Id. Ib. p. 576. Els had we neuer had so many lecherous luskes and prodygyous Sodomites among thē.-Bale. English Votaries, pt.i. Thei haue in their traunce and theire sleepe played out all their luskishe lustes.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 589. He is my foe, friend thou not him, Nor forge him arms, but let Him luske at home vnhonored No good by him we get.-Warner. Albion's England, c.30. When she [Gorgo] saw a forraigner comming toward her who was wont to go softly and delicately she thrust him from her and said: Avaunt idle lusk as thou art, and get thee gone, for thou art not so good of deed as a woman. Holland. Plutarch, p. 395. They loue no idle bench whistlers, nor luskish faitors: for yoong and old are whollie addicted to thriuing, the men commonlie to traffike, the women to spinning and carding. Holinshed. Description of Ireland, c. 3. But when he saw his foe before in view, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 1. LU'SORY. See ILLUDE. Lat. Ludere, to How bitter have some been against all lusory lots, or any play with chance.-Bp. Taylor. Artf. Handsomeness, p. 120. Many too nicely take exceptions at cardes and dice and such mixt lusorious lots, whom Gataker well confutes. Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 271. LUST, v. LUST, n. LU'STFUL. LU'STY. LU'STIHEAD, or LU'STIHOOD. LU'STILY. LU'STINESS. LU'STLESS. Goth, Luston; A. S. Lustan, lystan; Dut. Lusten; Ger. Lusten, cupere, petere, desiderare; to wish, to desire, to covet. See To LIST. Generally, to wish, to desire, to covet; to like, to love. Lusty,-being, or causing to be, full of desire; wilful, and, consequentially, licentious;-desirable, agreeable, and, consequentially, handsome, healthy, vigorous; and, according to more usual modern application, well clothed with flesh. Lust is much used-prefixed. Atte laste that him luste eni prelat ther make. R. Gloucester, p. 472. Ther was no kynde kynde. that conceyvede hadde, That no lees the lykynge of loust.-Piers Plousman, p.223. Not in passioun of lust as hethen men that knowen not God.-Wiclif. 1 Tessal. c. 4. And not in the luste of concupiscence as do the hethen men which knowe not God.-Bible, 1551. Ib. A yeman hadde he, and servantes no mo Chaucer. Prologue, v. 102. Therefore I passe over all this lustyhed. Id. The Squieres Tale, v. 10,602. When that Arcite had romed all his fill Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 15,031. For sothe liche I leue, ld. Ib. v. 1941. Gower. Con. A. b. v. Id. Ib. b. ii. If Jacob take a wyfe of the daughters of Neth suche one as these are, or of the daughters of the land what lust shoulde I haue to lyue.-Bible, 1551. Gen. c. 28. The sunne hath twise brought forth his tender grene, Surrey. Of the restless State of a Louer. But Paridell of love did make no treasure, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 9. Lust-breathed Tarquin leaves the Roman host, Shakespeare. The Rape of Lucrece. As the one thorow labour with danger grew stronger, and more able of body, so the other became more lusty and fresh by rest vndisturbed, and peaceable labour. Savile. Tacitus. Historie, p. 55. Manhood and honour Should haue hard hearts, wold they but fat their thoughts With this cramm'd reason; reason and respect, Makes liuers pale, and lustihood deiect. Shakespeare. Troyl. & Cress. Act ii. sc. 2. Nicanor arriving, did assail them so lustily, that few or none escaped him.-Ralegh. Hist. of World, b. iv. c. 3. s. 16. The true cause (that the child doth well) is, for that where there is so great a prevention of the ordinary time it is the lustinesse of the childe.-Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 353. Fleshly lust is not to be killed with a stab or two; it will fight stoutly, and rebel often, and hold out long before with our utmost endeavour we can obtain an entire victory over it.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 15. Here, with brute fury, lustful Nessus try'd 'Tis justly by the fatal shaft he dy'd.-Rowe. Lucan, b. vi. The wide projected heaps Of apples, which the lusty-handed year, If they're disposing for the play, Thomson. Aulumn. King. Art of Love, pt. xii. His court, the dissolute and hateful school Cowper. Table Talk. For now the frame no more is girt with strength LUSTRATE, v. LUSTRATING, n. LUSTRATION. Fr. Lustrer; It. Lustrare; Sp. Lustrar; Lat. Lustrare, to purify, from lue-re, to wash, to cleanse by washing. LU'STRE. LU'STRAL. LU'STRICAL. To purify. Lustre (Lat. Lustrum)-applied to the number of years (5) from one lustrum or lustration to another. Observe whether any infidel thought, any infidel lust, be lodged there [in the soul]: and when we have found this execrable thing, which hath brought all our plagues on us, then must we purge, and cleanse and lustrate the whole city for its sake.-Hammond. Works, vol. iv. p. 639. Перika@арμатa [filth] signifies those things that are used in the lustrating of a city among the Gentiles. Id. Ib. 1 Cor. iv. 13. Note. That spirits are corporeal, seems at first view a conceit derogative unto himself [the Devil], and such as he should rather labour to overthrow; yet hereby he establisheth the doctrine of lustrations, amulets, and charms. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. xi. c. 1. The ceremony of sprinkling holy water was a heathenish rite, used in the sanctifications and lustrations of the capitol. Bp. Taylor. Rule of Conscience, b. ii. c. 3. As yet three lusters were not quite expir'd, Stirling. Aurora, Son. 2. The priests sold the better pennyworths (than the philosophers) and therefore had all the custom. Lustrations and processions were much easier than a clean conscience, and a steady course of virtue. Locke. The Reasonableness of Christianity. The fourth bright lustre had but just begun But he by good use and experyence, hathe in his eye the Another light to helpe the aged sunn, Corbet. The New-borne Prince. This thin contexture makes its bosom fit, Celestial heat and lustre to transmit. Blackmore. Creation, b. ii. Within my memory the price of lutestring is raised above 7 two pence in a yard.-Spectator, No. 21. But to any one who duly considers of the matter it will appear that this quality (courage] has a peculiar lustre, which it derives wholly from itself, and from that noble elevation inseparable from it.-Hume, s. 7. Of Morals. Drawn from the deep we own their [pearls] surface bright, But dark within, they drink no lustrous light. LUTE, v. LUTE, n. LUTA'RIOUS. } Collins. Oriental Eclogues, Ecl. 1. Fr. Luter; It. Lotare; Lat. Lutare; to cover with mud or clay; from lutum, past part. of luere, to wash, to wet. Earth wetted is mud; lutum. To cover or close down with clay; with a composition tenacious and adhesive as clay. And let it have a cover of iron as strong (at least) as the sides; and let it be well luted, after the manner of the chymists.-Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 99. Merch. When you have worn him to the bones with uses Thrust him into an oven luted well. Massinger. A Very Woman, Act iii. sc. 1. Putting the mixture into a crucible closely luted at the top, we kept it by a fitly graduated fire in fusion for some hours, and found, as we expected, that the remaining salt (for part would get through the lute, or commissures in the form of fumes) was turned into an alkali, of a fair blue colour.-Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 604. For 'tis of a nature so subtil, That, if not luted with care, Dryden. Love in a Nunnery, Act i. sc. I. A scaly tortoise-shell, of the lutarious kind. LUTE. LU'TANIST. LU'TIST. Grew. Museum Fr. Lut; It. Liuto; Sp. Laud; Dut. Luyte; Ger. Laut; Sw. Luta. Wachter derives from the Ger. verb Laut-en, sonare, in A. S. Hlyd-an, the past part. of which is Hlud, or Lud. See Low, LOUD. Wheras with harpes, lutes, and guiternes, Wyatt. The Louer complaineth the Vnkindnes of his Loue. Thou lov'st to hear the sweet melodious sound That Phoebus' lute, the queen of music, makes. Commendatory Verses on Spenser Nay his [Strada] imitation of Claudian, in expressing a controversie betweene a lutist and a nightingale, for quick nesse and life may without preiudice be equalled with any thing that antiquity can boast of in that kinde. LUX, v. LUXATED. Fr. Luxation, luxer, to loose, or put out of joint; also to be out LUXATION. of joint, or out of due place; from the Lat. Lurare. For the surgical application, see the second Cotation from Wiseman. And if the straining or luxation of one joynt can so afflict cs what shall the racking of the whole body, and the torurag of the soul.-Bp. Hall. Heaven upon Earth, s. 16. If thou wert laid up of the gout, or some rupture, or aration of some limb, thou wouldst not complain to keep in thy pain would make thee insensible of the trouble of thy confinement.-Id. The Balm of Gilead. My feet, through wine unfaithful to their weight, Staggering I reel'd, and as I reel'd, I fell, Betray'd me tumbling from a towery height, Lad'd the neck joint-my soul descends to Hell. Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. xi. The bone Iurated, maketh compression on the neighbourparts, whither it slippeth; and accordingly as those parts are of more or less sense, so are the pains and accidents that attend it.-Wiseman. Surgery, b. vii. c. 2. When therefore two bones, which being naturally united make up a joint, are separated from each other, we call it a lazation-Id. Ib. Fr. Luxure; It. Lussuria; Sp. Luxuria; Lat. Luxuria, from luxus, and that from luere;-luxus is equivalent to dissolutus, and luxuries, the vice of a dissolute mind. Propriè luxus et luxuries significant profusam impensam. Luxury then means,Looseness or freedom, (sc.) bon restraint; exuberance; lavishness; loose>ess of desire; lustfulness; looseness or freedom of indulgence; voluptuousness; exuberance, abunCance, copiousness. LUXURIOUSLY. LEXURIOUSNESS. Every lazarious turmentour, dare dooen all felonie vnpanished. Chaucer. Boecius, b. i. And thus therefore The philosopher vpon this thinge Write, and counseiled to a kynge, That he the forfete of luxure Gower. Con. A. b. vii. Stall tempre. To beat his blood, and quicken luxury. Drayton. The Owl. Though it with beauteous leaves and pleasant fruit be Crown'd, Ites, deform'd and rotting, on the ground. Cowley. On the Death of Mrs. Katherine Philips. But as they were luxurious in the price, so were they ewise in the worke itself, which many times was lasciTs and beastly-Hakewill. Apologie, b. iv. s. 10. To spend the time luxuriously Becomes not men of worth. Daniel. Ulysses and the Syren. But above all things the exceeding luxuriousness of this Es age, wherein we press nature with overweighty V-Ralegh, History of the World, b. i. c. 5. s. 5. Lazury does not consist in the innocent enjoyment of y of the good things which God has created to be received thankfulness; but in the wasteful abuse of them to parposes, in ways inconsistent with sobriety, justice, tity-Clarke, vol. ii. Ser. 114 In wilde array luxuriantly he pours A crowd of words, and opens all his stores. Pitt. Vida's Art of Poetry, b. iii. Alexander the Great reflecting on his friends degenerating into sloth and luxury, told them, that it was a most slavish thing to luxuriate, and a most royal thing to labour. Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 19. Hence, to a botanist, the luxury of a garden, where every thing is arranged with a view to his favourite study. Stewart. Philos. Essays, Ess. i. c. 6. But grace abus'd brings forth the foulest deeds, Cowper. Expostulation. Poets no less celebrated for the luxuriancy, than for the elegance of their genius,-all writers of the New Comedy. Observer, No. 149. Till wealth and conquest into slaves refin'd Littleton. To Dr. Ayscough. Arbuthnot. Of Aliments, c. 1. Prop. 5. Horace either is or feigns himself lymphatick, and shews what an effect the vision of the Nymphs and Bacchus had on him. Shaftesbury. Concerning Enthusiasm, s. 6. All nations have their lymphaticks of some kind or an other. Id. Ib. Tho' thirst were e'er so resolute, avoid The sordid lake, and all such drowsy floods Armstrong. The Art of Preserving Health, b. ii. The lymphatic system, or the nervous system, may be more subtile and intricate; nay, it is possible that in their structure they may be even more artificial than the sanguiferous; but we do not know so much about them. Paley. Natural Theology, c. 10. Such as the circulation of the blood through every part of it: its lymphatics, exhalents, absorbents; its excretions and integuments.-Id. Ib. LYNX. Fr. Lyncée; It. Lince; Sp. Lynce; But as experience with rare proofes hath showne And when sweet sleep his heavy eyes had seiz'd, LYRE. LYRICK, adj. LY'RICKS. LY'RIST. Fr. Lycanthropie, from the Gr. Aukos, a wolf, and avoperos, a man. "A frenzie or melancholie, which causeth the patient (who thinks he is turned woolf) to flee all company, and hide himself in dens and corners," datur voces. (Cotgrave.) These changes are not imaginary, as in the case of lycanthropie, and delusions of jugling sorserers, but reall, and unfained.-Bp. Hall. The Estate of a Christian. It is contrary to the delusions of lycanthropy; there, he that is a man thinks himselfe a beast: here, he that is a beast thinks himself a man, and draws others' eyes into the same errour.-Id. St. Paul's Combat. LYM. So written by Shakespeare for Limehound. LYMPH, n. Fr. Lymphe, lymphatique; LYMPHATICK, adj. Lat. Lympha, which Vosfilia: (n changed into l.) LYMPHATICK, n. sius says is nympha, aquæ Lymphatick, as the Fr. Lymphatique,watery; "allayed or mixed with water; also mad, furious, bestraught; giddy, fantastical." Lat. Lymphutus, lymphaticus; credebant enim nymphas, si conspiOd. 19. lib. ii. Lymphaticus, quod aquam timeat, cerentur, furorem immittere, (Festus.) See Hor. (Isidorus.) See Vossius. Water, a watery liquor. And (so) the moisture, which the thirsty earth Davies. The Immortality of the Soul, s. 30. Maynwaring. Ovid. Metam. b. v. Fr. Lyre; It. Lira; Sp. Lyra; Lat. Lyra; Gr. Aupa, perhaps (Vossius) from Avei, solvere, dissolvere, quia în multas divi And thus, beneath her window, did he touch Sleep, sleep again, my lyre! Nor gentle thoughts in her inspire. By voice or hand, and various-measur'd verse, Id. Ib. Milton. Paradise Regained, b. iv. As Chiron mollify'd his cruel mind Dryden. Ovid. Metam. b. i. The following ode is an attempt towards restoring the regularity of the ancient lyric poetry, which seems to be altogether forgotten, or unknown by our English writers. Congreve. Discourse on the Pindaric Ode. Or else at wakes with Joan and Hodge rejoice, Gay. The Shepherd's Week. Wednesday. Eustace. Italy, vol. ii. c. 6. His [Eschylus] versification with the intermixture of lyric composition is more various than that of Shakspeare. Observer, No. 70. M is pronounced (says B. Jonson) with a kind of humming inward, the lips closed; open and full in the beginning, obscure in the end, and meanly in the midst; and Wilkins calls it the natural sound of lowing, when the lips are shut, and the sound proceeds out of the nose. MACAROON. MACARONI. MACARONIAN. MACARONICK. See N. Fr. Macaroon, macaronique; Sp. Macarrones; It. Macaroni, maccheroni: as some think (says Skinner) from the Gr. Mακαρ, q.d. μακαρων ευωχία, the feast of the happy; and he adds his surprise that the Greeks should derive any happiness from eating such paltry food. Menage writes more largely. (See his French and Italian Etymologies.) Cotgrave calls the It. Macaroni, "Lumps, or gobbets of boyled paste served up in butter, and strewed over with spice and grated cheese. A macaronick,-a confused heap or huddle of many several things." Macaronian or Macaronique poetry,-see the quotation from Cambridge. For the application (perhaps the original one) of macaroni to the person, see the quotation from Spectator: the more modern usage is A spruce beau, a fopling. Donne appears to intend, A conceited pretender, a frivolous, tiresome intruder. So I sigh, and sweat, Donne, Sat. 4. He doth learn to make strange sauces, to eat anchovies, maccaroni, &c.-B. Jonson. Cynthia's Revels. I mean those circumforaneous wits, whom every nation calls by the name of that dish of meat which it loves best. In Holland they are termed pickled herrings; in France, jean pottages; in Italy, maccaronies; and in Great Britain, jack puddings.-Spectator, No. 47. Ye travell'd tribe, ye macaroni train, Of French friseurs, and nosegays, justly vain; Who take a trip to Paris once a year, To dress, and look like aukward Frenchmen here; Goldsmith. Epilogue, spoken by Mrs. Bulkley. The macaronian is a kind of burlesque poetry, consisting of a jumble of words of different languages, with words of the vulgar tongue latinized, and latin words modernized. Cambridge. The Scribleriad, b. ii. Note 16. In the preface, or Apologetica (of Phantasia Macaronica) our author (Coccaio] gives an account of this new species of Poetry, since called the macaronic. Warton. History of English Poetry, vol. ii. p. 557. MACE. Fr. Macis; It. Mace, macis; Sp. Macias, macis; Lat. Macis; Gr. Makep. See the quotations from Brown and Ray. The fruit hereof [nutmeg] consisteth of four parts: the first or outward part is a thick and carnous covering like that of a walnut, the second a dry and flosculous coat, commonly called mace.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 6. In the nutmeg, another tegument is added, besides all these, viz. the mace, between the green pericarpium and the hard shell immediately enclosing the kernel. Ray. On the Creation, pt. i. MACE. (Flem. Masse, clava, Kilian;) Fr. Massue; It. Mazza; Sp. Maza; Mid. Lat. Maxuca, a club, from the Lat. Massa. R. Gloucester uses matis, i. e. clubs, says Hearne. Normanz and Burgolons, with lance, suerd, and mace. Deferre the spoile of the citie vntill night : Shakespeare. 2 Pt. Hen. VI. Act iv. sc. 7. Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. xi. John Bishop of Lincoln, with purse-bearer, mace-bearer, MACERATE, v. MACERATION. MA'CILENCY. } This is the design and the mischievous issue, which to cover and to propagate, the cunning machinator pretends the exaltation of the freeness of that grace which he designs to dishonour and defeat.-Glanvill, Ser. 10. Of Venus and Juno, Jupiter and Mercury, I say nothing, for they were all machining work.-Dryden. Æneis, Ded. The machinery, madam, is a term invented by the critics, to signify that part which the deities, angels, or demons, are made to act in a poem.-Pope. R. of the Lock. To d. Fermor. A great part of the machines made use of in those manufactures in which labour is most subdivided, were originally the inventions of common workmen, who, being each of them employed in some very simple operation, naturally turned their thoughts towards finding out easier and readier methods of performing it.—Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. i. c. I. T six boy-angels playing on musical instruments, and six 66 To make lean; to mortifie, weaken, bring down, punish, or pull under, the body; to suppress or subdue the lusts thereof by abstinence, or hard fare also, to allay, soak or steep in liquor." No such sad cares, as wont to macerate Spenser. Virgil. Gnat. Philip, Earl of Arundel, condemned in the year 1589, the queen had all this while spared, but now death would spare him no longer, having since that time been wholly given to contemplation, and macerated himself in a strict course of religion.-Baker. Queen Elizabeth, an. 1595. I speake of a true and serious maceration of our bodies, by an absolute and totall refraining from sustenance. Bp. Hall. Sermon preached to his Majesty, Mar. 30, 1628. For such [unactively cold and grossly humid] is the blood of the envious, the cause of that palenesse and macilency in their looks and constitutions.-Sandys. Ovid, Pref. The saliva distilling continually, serves well to macerate and temper our meat, and make it fit to be chewed and swallowed.-Ray. On the Creation, pt. ii. Dandelion, dens leonis, cordrilla, mascerated in several waters, to extract the bitterness, tho' somewhat opening, is very wholesome.-Evelyn. Acetaria. Eaten in excess [onions] are said to offend the head and eyes, unless edulcorated with a gentle maceration.-Id. Ib. The nuts should be macerated in water before they are put in the ground.-Grainger. The Sugar-Cane, Note. MACHINATE, v. MACHINA'TION, v. MACHINATOR. MACHINE. MACHINERY. MACHINIST. Fr. Machiner; It. Macchinare; Sp. Machinar; Lat. Machinari, which Vossius derives from the Gr.deobal, excogitare, to find out, (A. S. Mac-ian, | to make,) by thought, by ingenuity. See to ExCOGITATE, and ENGINE: to which latter word machine is equivalent. A tool or instrument made, invented or contrived by thought, by ingenuity; an engine, whether of war or peace, for useful or destructive purposes. To machinate, to contrive, to scheme, to devise. Machinist, -a name in common use at the A club, a staff; a staff (borne as an ensign of theatres. office.) Tho heo were thorg out ymengd with swerdes & with mace. He might then contemplate with inexpressible pleasure and satisfaction, observing the neatness and perfection of the machinery, how exactly and constantly every wheel performed the part to which it was adapted and designed, and the regularity and uniformity of the hand's motion produced thereby.-Horne. Newton & Hutchinson. Has the insufficiency of machinists hitherto disgraced the contrivances to keep pace with? Stevens. General Note on Macbeth. MACKEREL. Fr. Maquereau; Dut. Mackereel; of unsettled etymology. (See Menage.) Some think-a maculis, from its spots. These fishes, togither with the old Tunies and the young, called Pelamides, enter in great flotes and skulls into the sea Pontus, for the sweet food that they there find: and every companie of them hath their severall leaders and captaines and before them all, the maquerels lead the way whiche, while they be in the water, have a colour of brimstone; but without, like they be to the rest. Holland. Plinie, b. ix. c. 15. On Monday evening the butler stirring the water to take out some of the mackarels, found the water very luminous. and the fish shining through the water, as adding much to the light, which the water yielded. Boyle. Works, vol. vi. p. 395 Next morn they rose, and set up every sail; The wind was fair, but blew a mackrel gale. Dryden. The Hind and the Panther This fish is easily taken by a bait, but the best time is during a fresh gale of wind, which is thence called a mackrel gale. Pennant. British Zoology. The Common Mackrel MACROCOSM. Compounded of the Gr Makρos, large, and koruos, the world. The quotation from Boyle explains the opposit usages of macrocosm and microcosm. As for Paracelsus, certainly he is injurious to man, if (a some eminent chymists expound him) he calls a man microcosm, because his body is really made up of all the st veral kinds of creatures the macrocosm or greater world cor sists of, and so is but a model or epitome of the universe. Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 5 He forms, pervades, directs the whole; By ways nor seen nor understood Jones. An Epode. From the Tragedy of Schra MACTATION. Lat. Mactare, atum, to sla Here they call Cain's offering, which is described a allowed to be the first fruits of the ground only, a sacrifice mactation.-Shukford. On the Creation, Pref. MACULATE, v.) MA'CULATE, adj. MACULA'TION. How long will you machinate! Persecute with causeless hate! Sandys. Psalm, p. 96. This is the stale and known machination of him whose true title is, the accuser of the bretheren. spot. Bp. Hall. Christian Moderation, b ii. s. 15. Rule 11. Fr. Maculer, It. Mac lare; Sp. Macular; La Maculare, from macula, To spot or distain with spots or specks; stain. |